Bringing Up Baby

Bringing Up Baby is a 1938 screwball comedy film which tells the story of a scientist who winds up falling in love with a woman who tricks him into caring for a leopard, named Baby. It stars Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Barry Fitzgerald and May Robson.

Plot

Bringing Up Baby follows the confused adventures of Susan Vance, an heiress whose aunt is going to give away a million dollars either to her or to the Paleontologist David Huxley and his museum. When Susan's brother sends her a leopard, Baby, which she doesn't know that is meant for this Aunt she calls Huxley, a running gag being that she constantly calls him a Zoologist rather than a Paleontologist believing he can help her. However, once the leopard has been brought to Susan's country home, Susan uses every opportunity to keep Huxley there because she has decided that she loves him. While at the house a dog named George complicates everything by stealing and burying the last bone, the intercostal clavicle, of a Brontosaurus that Huxley has been assembling at his museum. Furthermore, the Aunt that is giving away the money also arrives at the house, unaware of who Huxley really is and believes him to be a man named Bone. Susan's leopard eventually escapes, as does one from a circus and the story then becomes about them trying to find the bone, the leopard, occasionally the dog called George, and making sure the Aunt still wants to give away the million dollars.

Related Topics:
Paleontologist - Zoologist - Brontosaurus

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